Index 423 Nepttne (the god), 254; (the planet), 3.% Nero, 365 Nerves, 79 — and Postmen, 85 New Ideas, 106 New Quarterly, 7, 251 New Testament, 338, 339 New Zealand, i, 8, 21, 39, 63, 99, 213, 250, 268, 270, 271, 283 Newland's Law, 66 Newman, Cardinal, 186, 187 Newspapers, 291, 292 Newton, Sir Isaac, 344, 345 Nice people, 391 Nicholas Nickleby, Telema- chus and, 193 Night, 315 -----Shirts and Babies, 85, 86 Nihilism, 219 Nihilo, Ex, nihil fit, 312, 314 Nile, The Battle of the, 278 Niobean folds, 269 Noise, Making, 373 Non-Ego, Ego and, 321 Non-living and living, 71 Non Omnis Moriar, 355 Nonsense, 72, 75, 328 — Humanitarian, 119 Norman fisherman, 36 " Not on sad Stygian shore," 397 Note-Books of Samuel Butler, The, Extracts from, in the New Quarterly Review, 7 Notes, 363 — An author the worst person to edit or even to write his own, 215 — Making, roo, 101 — These, 261 Nothing, 310, 312, 314, 316 Notoriety, 373 Nuremberg, 258 Obliteration of the Past, 293 Obscurity, 366, 367 — after death, 291 9 Observation, 363 " O Critics, cultured Critics ! " 39i Occasions Supreme, 268, 269 Octogenarian, 354 Ode for S. Cecilia's Day, 165 " Odour of defencef illness/' 390 Odyssey, The, 5, 173, 192-9, 254, 277, 302, 369, 376-8, 380 — Homer's, 32 — Rendered into English Prose, The, 6, 369 — The, and a Tomb at Car- cassonne, 198 — The, Bunyan and, 191 — The, a corpse to all who need Lang's translation, 197 — The, written by a woman, 198 Offers of Marriage, 227 Oil and Water, 210 Old age, 66 Old Masters, The, and their pupils, 135 Olympus, Mount, 345 Omission in art, 97, 100, 101 Omnibus, Studying faces in, 137 Omnipresence of Intelligence, 77 Omnium gatherum, 10 On the Making of Music, Pictures and Books, 93 et scq. Oneself, 357 Opera, At the, 131 — Grand, 131 — Italian, 131 Opinion, 335 — and matter, 80 — heredity or post-natal, 321 — Public, 108, 261